i/ol. 76 No. 30 USPS 045360 12 Pages
College Station, Texas
Tuesday, October 12, 1982
olish strike
United Press International
DANSK, Poland — Thousands of
defiant shipyard workers in Gdansk and
nearby Gdynia began a second day of
strikes today with vows to continue
their protest until Solidarity is rein
stated and interned leader Lech Walesa
i^jfreed, witnesses said.
■Riot police, who until midnight Mon
day fought running street battles with
hundreds of youthful demonstrators,
sealed off Gdansk’s Lenin shipyard
where workers struck at 6 a.m. — the
beginning of the first work shift.
Witnesses said water cannon,
armored vehicles and hundreds of
ZOMO riot police were posted in
Gdansk, where Solidarity — the first
independent labor union ever in the
communist world — was born two years
ago.
Workers said Solidarity supporters
also struck at two shipyards and the port
areas in Gdynia, 15 miles northwest of
Gdansk.
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United Press International
■ DENVER— Hydrochloric acid disc
overed in two bottles ofVisine A.C. eye
drops in western Colorado probably was
planted by an imitator hoping to inten-
Hfy the national scare surrounding over-
s^Be-counter drugs, a poison expert says.
-- Barry Rumack, director of the Rocky
-^■ountain Poison Control Center,
-s^Bnounced Monday the hydrochloric
.^■id had been detected in two bottles of
Visine A.C. taken from the shelves of a
Target discount store in Grand Junc-
ijon, Colo.
I Rumack, whose nationally known
^^^Bison center was instrumental in iden-
,til\ ing cyanide as the toxin linked to the
^^^^Baths of seven Chicago area residents
took ExtraStrength Tylenol cap-
j Sules, said the Visine contamination
[OH lUnWhme as no surprise,
ihafima sa ’^ f* ve instances of contamin
ated eye drops had been reported in
California since August, including one
last week.
1 Rumack immediately issued a plea to
the makers of Visine, the New York
(fity-based Lemming Division of Pfizer
he., to recall its eye drop products
T \ Nationwide until the source of the con-
B ■mination could be determined.
■ ■ ^ ie sa ‘d the Food and Drug
■ Administration advised against a nation-
■ recall until further data could be eol-
kM oM( k e tpd.
“We suggested a national recall but
| , federal officials felt ther
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were no
mnds since there were no indications
the contaminations were other than loc
al,” Rumack said. “The problem was,
today was a federal-state holiday and we
were unable to reach anyone with any
real authority.”
The clinical toxicologist said the first
contaminated bottle of eye drops was
discovered after a patient at the Veter
ans Administration Hospital in Grand
Junction used the product about 9:30
a.m. Monday at the hospital.
Rumack said the VA patient, Larry
Micheal Tingley, 38, who was on leave
from the hospital when he purchased
the product Friday at the Target store,
was treated immediately by nursing
personnel, who washed his left eye and
sent him to a opthalmologist.
The second bottle was found at the
same Target store where Tingley purch
ased the product. It was discovered af
ter the incident was reported.
In Grand Junction, Detective Tom
Freeman said Tingley suffered only “su
perficial damage, ” but emphasized the
severity of his injury was greatly re
duced because he was in a hospital set-
ting;
“If he had not been in a hospital
where he got immediate first aid, it
would have been much worse,” Free
man said.
Rumack said his center asked that all
Visine products in Colorado be re
moved from the shelves and the request
had been granted. He said Target offi
cials voluntarily agreed to remove the
product from all its Colorado stores.
quatter violence
orst in 2 years
United Press International
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands —
IHundreds of riot police used sticks,
argas and water cannon Monday to
attic about 1,990 people who stoned
the U.S. consulate in the city’s worst
uatter violence in nearly two years.
Acrid black smoke from blazing cars,
arricades and a tram hung over the
restigious residential area in the city’s
nuseum quarter. Police said the fight-
lig was triggered by the eviction of five
|quatters from a $130,000 villa.
Police said nine rioters were arrested
pd five officers were injured four hours
fter the fighting broke out at 11:30 a. m.
Squatter sources said at least 30 demon-
ators were hurt.
It was the worst squatter riot in Am
sterdam since December 1980, when
lice evicted squatters from a building
bout 200 yards from the scene of Mon-
ay’s violence.
The rioters tore down a multi-rowed
ecurity fence around the U.S. consu-
ate, which was the target of anti-
American violence earlier this year.
The consulate was stoned and splat
tered with paint, but the worst fighting
took place 100 yards away outside the
famous Concertgebouw concert hall.
Rioters overturned a gasoline truck
that spilled fuel under a passing tram,
which caught fire and burned dramatic
ally for 30 minutes before firefighters
could get through the crowds.
The fighting moved back and forth
across Museum Square as police fired
teargas and rioters erected new barri
cades each time police front-end loaders
cleared one away.
The police official said at least 600
riot-trained men were deployed against
the rioters, who numbered about 1,000.
The villa on the Jan Luijkenstraat
from which the squatters were evicted
was first occupied on April 4 last year.
Three months ago, a court in The Hague
ordered the building cleared and police
moved in Monday on orders from Am
sterdam’s mayor and chief of police,
Wim Polak.
staff photo by Octavio Garcia
Thomas Hauser, author of Missing, stands by Ika
Todorovic, a political science major, moments before his
exposition in the Rudder Theater. Hauser began as a
lawyer but later tui ned to writing and worked for the
New York Times. After the presentation there was a
reception for Hauser in 145 MSC.
, street riots continue
Witnesses said the strikers deman
ded Walesa’s release. The mustachioed
union leader, who spearheaded the Au
gust 1980 strike at the Lenin shipyard
which led to Solidarity’s birth, has been
interned since martial law was imposed
Dec. 13. The strikers also demanded
the Polish government reinstate Soli
darity.
It was not clear, however, whether
the protestors planned a continuous
strike to achieve their demand, or if
they intended a daily strike of the first
shift only, as announced Monday.
“It’s just like August 1980,” said a
witness Monday, referring to the 1980
Gdansk shipyard strikes that led to gov
ernment recognition of the Solidarity
trade union. “It was the same atmos
phere.”
Workers on the first shift at three
Baltic port shipyards refused to work in
a spontaneous protest of parliament s
decision last week to outlaw the Eastern
bloc’s first independent trade union.
The disturbances could spread today
and Wednesday when martial law, de
clared Dec. 13, reaches its 10-month
mark.
Police used tear gas, water cannon
and flares to disperse youths who
gathered late Monday at the Gdansk
train station near the Lenin shipyard,
after workers ended the day’s strike ac
tion, official and independent reports
said.
Western reporters who were able to
enter the city late Monday, after roadb
locks that had sealed the port off during
the day were lifted, said downtown
streets were littered with rocks, broken
glass and battered trash cans and ben
ches that had been used as barricades.
They said street clashes between
“hundreds” of angry youths and riot
police lasted late into the night in at
least one Gdansk suburb — near the
former national headquarters of Soli
darity.
Charles Cargill appointed
operations vice president
by Rebeca Zimmermann
Battalion Staff
Upon entering Charles R. “Chuck”
Cargill’s office, it is apparent a transi
tion is under way.
Desks, chairs and other furniture
have been gathered to service his
office temporarily, until new (and
matching) furniture arrives.
But more than office furniture
changes are at work in this transition.
The redecorating mirrors a much lar
ger “office” change — the appoint
ment of Cargill as vice president for
operations — a position created as part
of Texas A&M President Frank E.
Vandiver’s reorganization plan for the
University.
Cargill’s appointment was
approved by the Texas A&M System
Board of Regents on Sept. 28.
Cargill, formerly associate vice
president for business affairs, oversees
the activities of Security and Traffic
(University Police), Educational In
formation Services, the coordinator of
computing, the Physical Plant and
Grounds Maintenance departments.
These divisions previously were su
pervised by other vice presidents. The
vice president for student services
coordinated the University Police.
The vice president for business affairs
was in charge of the grounds mainte
nance department and the Physical
Plant.
The vice president for academic
affairs oversaw Educational Informa
tion Services. The coordinator of com
puting is a new position.
Vandiver recently created the posi
tions of vice president for operations
and vice president for fiscal affairs.
Charles R. Cargill,
vice president for operations
The position of vice president for busi
ness affairs will be abolished when
Vice President Howard L. Vestal re
tires in January.
“Everything (in the divisions) has
come to me intact,” Cargill said. “No
thing has been reorganized, and we
don’t plan any reorganizations.”
He supervises 1,251 people in these
departments and his office. He is
assisted by an associate vice president
for operations, Jim Ferguson.
“As far as I can tell, I think we have
an outstanding organization,” Cargill
said. “We get our money’s worth from
our budgets and do everything we
can.
“I’m going to have to feel my way
along until I can really establish the
parameters of the job. It will be a
growing process.”
The Physical Plant is the largest di
vision under Cargill’s supervision,
with 1,009 budgeted positions. Utili
ties, transportation services and custo
dial services are in this department.
Cargill said the different divisions
he has responsibility for are not as di
verse and unrelated as they seem. For
instance, he said, at a football game,
grounds maintenance places direc
tional signs around campus, the Phy
sical Plant prepares stands for pre
game ceremonies and the University
Police direct traffic.
Cargill will supervise a new posi
tion: the coordinator of computing,
formed Sept. 1 and filled by Dr. Tom
Rhine.
Rhine will advise faculty members
on computer purchases and applica
tions in the University, Cargill said.
“One of Dr. Rhine’s charges is to
make recommendations as to what di
rection the future of computing for the
University should take,” Cargill said.
Educational, research and administra
tive computing will be studied. Rhine
is studying the long-range needs of
each, he added.
“My number one job is to replace
Tom Parsons, he said. “It is extremely
important to get someone with
empathy who will uphold University
rules and regulations but with com
passion.”
Parsons, who has served as director
of security and traffic since 1977, will
retire Jan. 31.
Student input is important, Cargill
said. Managing the bookstore and di
recting business services, which in
clude food services and residence
halls, have taught him the value of
listening to students, he said.
Cargill, Class of ’53, said he re
members his days as a student. And he
still uses the most important thing he
learned in a management course —
delegation of authority.
“I’d like to see the activities remain
fairly decentralized,” he said. “I in
tend to know what happens ... but,
still, I don’t want to help directly in
day-to-day functions.
“My role is as a planner, organizer and
coordinator. Then, I control activities
through communication. Probably my
goal would be to try to see faculty, staff
and students perceive my activities as
good, caring activities.
“It’s a humbling experience to
know some of the things you do have a
profound effect on people. ”
Cargill said he is pleased with his
new job for two reasons: he always has
wanted to have authority over a large
activity and he loves Texas A&M.
Cargill has been at the University
since 1962. He managed the Universi
ty Bookstore from 1965 to 1973 and
the University Center from 1973 to
1978. He was director of business ser
vices from 1978 to 1981 and associate
vice president for business affairs from
1981 until Sept. 28.
Cargill received a bachelor’s degree
in business administration in 1953 and
earned a master’s degree in business
administration in 1967.
I
Government to present Wood jury
with its version of events of death
United Press International
SAN ANTONIO — A convicted hit
man and two women accused in the
1979 shooting death of federal Judge
John Wood Jr. will testify in their own
behalf during their month-long trial,
attorneys said.
But beginning Monday, the govern
ment will have the first chance to pre
sent the jury with its version of events
surrounding Wood’s death.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Ray Jahn
said in opening arguments last week the
government’s witnesses would prove
“beyond a doubt” that Charles Harrel-
son of Dallas killed Wood for a fee of
$250,000 from Jimmy Chagra, an El
Paso gambler.
Chagra, who is to be tried later, faced
a drug smuggling trial in Wood’s court
at the time and feared a life sentence,
Jahn said.
The men’s wives, Jo Ann Harrelson
and Elizabeth Chagra, participated in
the planning and coverup, Jahn said, as
did Chagra’s younger brother Joe, an El
Paso lawyer.
“There was no gigantic meeting
where they took a vote as to who desired
to kill Judge Wood, ” Jahn told the jury.
“That’s not the nature of a ciminal re
lationship.”
Harrelson is on trial for murder, his
wife for obstruction of justice and Mrs.
Chagra for conspiracy.
Harrelson, who served a prison term
for a 1968 contract killing, will testify
that he was in Dallas the day Wood was
killed in San Antonio, said defense
attorney Tom Sharpe. He and his wife
first heard of the death while watching
the “Dinah Shore Show,” he said.
“We are not required to prove who
killed Judge Wood or who didn’t kill
Judge Wood, ” Sharpe said in his open
ing statement Thursday. “Yet we be
lieve when we conclude this trial, we
will be able to prove consistent with
FBI records and the federal investiga
tion who killed Judge Wood — and it
will not be Charles Harrelson.”
Jahn said Joe Chagra will testify that
Harrelson confessed the slaying to him.
But Sharpe countered that Harrelson
lied in an effort to extort money from Joe
Chagra.
He had already swindled Jimmy
Chagra out of $150,000 with a false
promise to carry out a drug deal, Sharpe
said. That phony deal was Harrelson’s
only involvement with Chagra, he said.
Author asserts journalist’s
death was covered up
by David Johnson
Battalion StafT
The author of “Missing,” Thomas
Hauser, Monday asserted that the U.S.
government attempted to cover up the
execution of an American free lance
journalist.
Hauser, sponsored by MSC Great
Issucommittee, relayed the story of his
Pulitzer prize-winning book to an audi
ence in Rudder Theater. He said he
travelled around the world tracking
down witnesses of the events that are
detailed in the book.
The book, which was later made into
a movie, revolves around the arrest and
alleged execution of Charles Herman by
the Chilean government. Harmon had
been trapped in the Chilean coastal
town of Valparaiso during the 1973 coup
that overthrew the Marxist government
of Salvador Allende.
Herman took notice of the apparently
detailed knowledge of the coup by U.S.
officials. Because of this, Hauser
charged, Harmon was dragged from his
house in Santiago a few days later by a
dozen Chilean Army soldiers. Hauser
said Harmon was then taken to San
tiago’s main sports stadium where he
was eventually executed after being
beaten and tortured. The Chilean gov
ernment officially ruled that Harmon
had died after being caught in crossfire
between the Army and leftist guerrillas.
Hauser said that knowledgeable
sources, including a 20-year veteran of
the Chilean intelligence service, had
concrete information concerning Har
mon’s location and fate and had passed
that information to the U.S. embassy.
This information, Hauser said, was deli
berately concealed from Harmon’s wife
and father even after Harmon’s body
had been identified and sent to the U.S.
Proof that Harmon had been tortured
and executed was evident, Hauser said,
by the severe fractures and a long slash
on the arm that could not have occurred
if the Chilean government’s official
story had been true. In addition, Har
mon’s body had been riddled by six bul
lets and a part of his skull had been
placed in his chest cavity.
Hauser said he was still undecided on
the question of actual U.S. involvement
in Harmon’s death and that government
documents which may answer that
question are restricted for national
security reasons.
Hauser said he was pleased with the
movie version of “Missing,” although he
said it was dramatized and in some
scenes did not represent what actually
took place.
Hauser is a graduate of the Columbia
Law School and worked for a Wall
Street law firm before taking up writing.
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